"BATRACHOMYOMACHIA"

Feature (In Postproduction) | Poland/Germany | 83"Min | 1:1.66 | b&w | 2x Arri Amira + Angénieux Optimo Zoom /Ultra Primes

The Story follows one day of inconvenient events inside the community of Tluszcza - a small village located by the huge artificial lake, somewhere between the eastern countries. The lake is the key to the peoples existence. It sustains them - both ideologically and materially. One day a group of strangers suddenly arrive and force the citizen of Tluszca to change their perception on their lakes fate. Doubt starts to arise paired with questions like what the human role in the circle of life might be? Under the surface of constant bullshit gaggling, the mobby eristic that leads nowhere, an obvious truth starts to occur. Without the ability to express oneself, man loses all connection with fellow humans, loses his common sense. Therefore who is the undignified mute? Batrachomyomachia is a film that donned a robe of psychological comedy drama, with slights of Horror. The dialogues in the film are almost entirely based on the very specific social media dialectics, which aroused with the conflict around the deforestation of the Bialowieza forest in Poland.

Director: ­Kasia Hertz, Producer: Wiktoria Huber/ dffb, Editing: Maciej Kunach, Kasia Hertz, Sound: Joscha Eickel, Francisco Petrucci, Martyna Poznańska, Jan Szewczyk, 2nd Camera: Moritz Friese, Production Design: Andrzej Zając, Make Up Artist: Daria Łuksza, 1st AC A Cam: Thomas Ammann, 1st AC B Cam: Leon Hörtrich, 2nd AC: Maciej Kunach, Gaffer: Yusuf Ahmed Mohamed, Best Boy: Nicklas Stinner Rental: E-Sun Berlin, Maddels Camera